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Rebecca
- De: Daphne du Maurier
- Narrado por: Anna Massey
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9,094
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,068
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.... The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives - presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Easily the best audiobook I have ever heard!
- De Kid at Heart en 11-10-18
- Rebecca
- De: Daphne du Maurier
- Narrado por: Anna Massey
So out datedAnd sexist, but..
Revisado: 11-02-19
It’s a pretty good page turner. Of coarse women are treated and think of themselves as
“Pets”. But if you can get over that it’s pretty entertaining.
I can’t say anything else without spoiling it.
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Housekeeping
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Becket Royce
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 849
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 605
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 608
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone, set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death.
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4 out of 5 stars
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errancy, abandonment, and madness
- De Emily en 07-19-11
- Housekeeping
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Becket Royce
One of the best books ever written.
Revisado: 02-07-17
I cherish this book with all my heart. I love all her books but since this was the first it has a special place.
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The Son
- De: Philipp Meyer
- Narrado por: Will Patton, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,821
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,261
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,262
Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching examination of the bloody price of power, The Son is a gripping and utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American west with rare emotional acuity, even as it presents an intimate portrait of one family across two centuries. Eli McCullough is just twelve-years-old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his Texas homestead and brutally murder his mother and sister, taking him as a captive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five Stars for the Lone Star, The Son, & Meyer
- De Mel en 06-04-13
- The Son
- De: Philipp Meyer
- Narrado por: Will Patton, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd, Clifton Collins Jr.
Epic Texas Saga!
Revisado: 12-04-16
Great new American author writing books that can stand hold their own with "lonesome dove" or "horseman pass by" great great epic! So glad I gave this one a listen. The narration and production were off the hook as well. Can't wait to read more by Philipp Meyer!
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Yellow Crocus
- Yellow Crocus, Book 1
- De: Laila Ibrahim
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12,611
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11,251
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,211
Moments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A rare find, a 5 star book!
- De Kathy in CA en 02-22-15
- Yellow Crocus
- Yellow Crocus, Book 1
- De: Laila Ibrahim
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
Should be labeled as young adult.
Revisado: 11-19-16
Really sappy and dumb. Making light of slavery and over simplifying the institution might be ok if introducing the subject to 7 year olds. It is insulting in adult literature. Listen to Toni Morrison's "Beloved again instead.
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Beloved
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,219
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,407
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,377
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Author-read Books
- De John R Williford en 07-14-06
- Beloved
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
Touches me every time. Every time beloved.
Revisado: 11-17-15
I listen to this book every fall and it always touches my heart. Toni Morrison is one of the most amazing American writers to ever grace our pages with her words. Listen to this and all her unabridged works.
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Home
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 694
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 553
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 548
Glory Boughton, aged 38, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack - the prodigal son of the family, gone for 20 years - comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wish that I had read this one
- De S. Elder en 10-02-08
- Home
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Maggi-Meg Reed
A masterpiece
Revisado: 07-03-15
I could listen over and over, beautiful heartbreakingly lovely book. It made me believe in humanity again.
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Rena's Promise
- A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
- De: Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam
- Narrado por: Heather Dune Macadam
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 336
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 312
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 308
"I do not hate. To hate is to let Hitler win." - Rena Kornreich Gelissen. On March 26, 1942, the first mass transport of Jews - 999 young women - arrived in Auschwitz. Among them was Rena Kornreich, the 716th woman numbered in camp. A few days later, her sister Danka arrives and so begins a trial of love and courage that will last three years and 41 days, from the beginning Auschwitz death camp to the end of the war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Content / Horrible Production
- De Simone en 07-23-15
- Rena's Promise
- A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
- De: Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam
- Narrado por: Heather Dune Macadam
Good story, god aweful narration
Revisado: 02-08-15
Oh I wish they would have sprung for a professional narrator. The authors voice and her impression
of a polish accent is enough to make your ears bleed. Is was practically unlistenable. And the way the author insinuates herself into the importance of this story is enough to make you wretch.
Really horrible performance. If there is ever a book on knitting or casserole making,
the author maybe could read that outloud to her stupid cat. But that's about all I would grant her.
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The Beatles
- The Biography
- De: Bob Spitz
- Narrado por: Alfred Molina
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 825
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 827
Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth, until now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Put Away Your, Hunter Davies
- De James en 12-05-05
- The Beatles
- The Biography
- De: Bob Spitz
- Narrado por: Alfred Molina
biased but good
Revisado: 02-25-10
The book should be retitled "why you should hate john lennon" bit i enjoyed the book very much, although obviously biased against john lennon for whatever reason. still worth listening to
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Wuthering Heights
- De: Emily Brontë
- Narrado por: Janet McTeer, David Timson
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,533
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,084
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,095
When Mr. Earnshaw brings a black-haired foundling child into his home on the Yorkshire moors, he little imagines the dramatic events which will follow. The passionate relationship between Cathy Earnshaw and the foundling, Heathcliff, is a story of love, hate, pity, and retribution, the effects of which reverberate throughout the succeeding generations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Classic
- De Stephanie en 12-05-07
- Wuthering Heights
- De: Emily Brontë
- Narrado por: Janet McTeer, David Timson
good book
Revisado: 10-27-09
Good book and a great listen. However an alternate title to this might be. "A Bunch Of A--holes". Each character is more mean and miserable than the last. But it is a great story
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Elizabeth and Mary
- Cousins, Rivals, Queens
- De: Jane Dunn
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 19 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 402
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 194
In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling on one island, each with a claim to the throne of England, each embodying dramatically opposing qualities of character, ideals of womanliness (and views of sexuality), and divinely ordained kingship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book
- De Catharina en 05-09-04
- Elizabeth and Mary
- Cousins, Rivals, Queens
- De: Jane Dunn
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
great book
Revisado: 05-08-08
I loved this book it showed the very human sides of these two icons. My only criticism would be that it ended at the death of Mary . I wanted to hear the details of Elizabeth's later years. All in all though its very much worth a listen.
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